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Fred Fitch, the easiest mark in New York, falls for every con going, and then inherits a fortune from an uncle he never knew, who was murdered.
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Dial A for Aunties
When Meddelin Chan accidentally kills her blind date, her meddling mother and three aunties help her hide the body, which ends up in a cooler at the extravagant island wedding their family business is running.
One for the Money
Laid off from selling lingerie, Stephanie Plum of Trenton, New Jersey, talks her cousin Vinnie into hiring her as a bounty hunter, and her first skip is Joe Morelli, a cop wanted for murder who seduced and dumped her when they were teenagers.
La Brava
Joe LaBrava, a former Secret Service agent turned photographer in Miami Beach, falls for Jean Shaw, a film noir actress he idolised as a boy, and walks into a scam built around her.
Citizen Vince
Vince Camden, a former mob guy living in Spokane under witness protection, deals cards and runs a credit card scam, and in the week before the 1980 election realises he can vote for the first time.
The Thin Man
A retired detective and his wealthy wife drink their way through a Prohibition-era Christmas in New York while he is pulled into the disappearance of an eccentric inventor suspected of murder.
Get Shorty
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, goes to Los Angeles to collect from a man who faked his own death, meets a producer of schlock horror films who also owes money, and decides he could make movies himself.
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Four strangers swindled out of a million dollars by the same con man team up for an elaborate scheme to get it back.
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
A broke single mother and struggling novelist is overheard discussing the plot of her next book in a Panera and mistaken for a contract killer, and the offer is too much money to turn down outright.
Promised Land
Spenser, the Boston private eye, is hired to find a missing housewife from Cape Cod, and finds her among a group of militant feminists planning a robbery.
The False Inspector Dew
In 1921 Walter Baranov, a London dentist, sails for New York on the Mauretania with his lover, planning to be rid of his wife on the way. Travelling under the name Walter Dew, the inspector who caught Dr Crippen, he is asked to investigate a murder on board.
Camino Island
After thieves steal F. Scott Fitzgerald's manuscripts from a vault beneath Princeton's library, Mercer Mann, a young novelist with writer's block and student debts, is paid to spend a summer on a Florida island getting close to Bruce Cable, a charming bookseller who may know where they are.
Harlem Shuffle
A furniture dealer in 1960s Harlem runs a criminal sideline, and the heist novel becomes a portrait of a neighbourhood navigating the edge of the Civil Rights era.